Beautiful Photos of the Bastnas Sweden Automotive Graveyard – Supercompressor.com

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Bastnas is a rural ore field in southern Sweden that’s been noteworthy for its mining since the late 1600s. It’s also the place where a pair of brothers decided to start a scrapyard to serve as a final resting place for the cars used by WWII servicemen.

Eventually, even the scrap yard was abandoned and nature has slowly reclaimed its sovereignty. The 15 photos below are part of a much larger set by Thomas Geersing that documents the current state of the Bastnas Scrapyard: beautifully dilapidated.

 

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To see the rest of Thomas Geersing's photos chance the link below.

To see the rest of Thomas Geersing’s photos chance the link below.

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Thanks for reading.

Tim

Help finding volvo junkyard in Gary IN – Turbobricks Forums

I met a guy one time who has a Volvo junkyard with many RWD Volvos in Gary IN. I have now spent many hours trying to find his place again but can not. He is not a registered business. Does anyone know of this guy?
The Volvo Junkyard: Organ Donors Keeping Their Swedish …

Yes, old Volvos are the official car of Eugene, the posterboys of everything that defines a true Curbside Classic. They’re everywhere, at least a couple per block, in the right […]

Andy Warhol’s Mercedes-Benz W196 silkscreen could fetch up to $16 million at | Hemmings Daily

Real Car Guys Love Car Art!!!! This one might be bit ‘steep’ in prices, but I do like.

Andy Warhol’s Mercedes-Benz W196 silkscreen could fetch up to $16 million at | Hemmings Daily.

 

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Tim

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Young Saudi Men Are Mounting Their Cars On Piles Of Rocks In A Strange New …

A Saudi youth finishes building a pedestal under a car, part of a new art form called “Tahjir.” There’s a new automotive art form catching on in Saudi Arabia, and it has nothing to do with driving. It’s called “Tahjir,” or “Stoning,” and it involves

Average Guys Car Restoration Mods and Racing.com – Register and Win

Update:  First drawing is July 15, 2013.

I haven’t held a contest in a long time.  So it’s way over due and I have a lot of model cars and DVDs to handout.

So here is what I’m going to do.

I going to take the next 20 individuals that register with Average Guys’ Car Restoration, Mods and Racing and toss them into a virtual hat and pick 10 winners.  They will receive one of 10 Motor Mint model antique cars.

You just need a valid email address to register at https://www.average-guys-car-restoration-mods-racing.com and you will be entered to win.  If you comment on one of the articles, you’ll be entered twice.

I never share personal information with anyone and no one but myself has access to your email.

Good luck and thanks for reading.

Tim

 

 

 

BRIGHT HOT ROD RUN 2012 SATURDAY

BRIGHT HOT ROD RUN 2012 SATURDAY.

 

 

 

 

 

I reblog this site all the time.  Love the photography!!

http://crcooperphotography.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/bright-hot-rod-run-2012-saturday/

 

Tim

Tucson Classic Car Show 2012 Carbon Grand Sport

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Greg’s new ride.

It is a beautiful Carbon Grand Sport.  Of course Greg has already tweaked the engine.  (Oh…BTW it is one of only 365 produced!!!)

I opp’ed to take just one car and that was the Mustang – left the Corvette at home   :^(

There were some awesome Corvettes there!!

Thanks for reading.

Tim

Neil Armstrong Corvette heads toward preservation | Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts

Neil Armstrong Corvette heads toward preservation | Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts.

 

 

Neil Armstrong Corvette heads toward preservation

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Photos by Roger Kallins.

Of the dozens of Corvettes famously linked to the astronauts of the moon-shot Sixties, only a handful of documented Apollo-era astronaut-owned‘Vettes survive, none of them as original as the 1967 Corvette once owned by the late Neil Armstrong. Now, thanks to a new initiative, that Corvette will undergo a preservation effort that will keep it just as Armstrong had it.

One of the many Corvettes that Florida Chevrolet dealer Jim Rathmann sold to those with the Right Stuff, Armstrong’s Marina Blue mid-year coupe emerged from the St. Louis assembly plant on December 9, 1966, and passed into his possession six days later. Equipped with the 390hp 427-cu.in. V-8, a four-speed transmission, air conditioning, power brakes, power windows, tinted windows, transistorized ignition, and the AM-FM radio, the coupe served Armstrong for the next year, until he traded it in at Rathmann Chevrolet for a 1968 Corvette convertible. A day later, a fellow NASA employee bought it, beginning a 44-year stretch of ownership that ended earlier this year when current owner Joe Crosby bought it.

Crosby, a Corvette restorer from Merritt Island, Florida, actually first got wind of the Corvette in the summer of 1979, when the second owner still had it on the road. “My brother and I both talked about buying it,” Crosby said. “At the time we didn’t know it had something to do with Neil Armstrong, we just knew that it was a big-block car with its original engine. All the Corvettes I’ve restored have had their original engines. But I had two other Corvettes I was working on at the time, so I passed.”

Regardless, he kept in touch with the second owner, calling him about once a year to chat and see if the Corvette was still for sale. At one point over the years the second owner revealed that Armstrong originally owned the Corvette, but the answer always remained no. In the meantime, the second owner moved the Corvette into a heated and air-conditioned garage and put it up on jackstands with the intentions of turning it into a family project. He modified it with fender flares, as was the fashion of the time, but got no farther with it.

Even up to late 2011, the second owner refused to sell, but then one day in late February he called Crosby and asked him if he still wanted to buy it. “It took me about five minutes to get the trailer ready to pick it up,” Crosby said. After getting it home, his initial assessment showed the Corvette to be in largely original condition, apart from the flares, thanks to its 31-year hibernation and the 38,000 miles on the odometer. “The rubber fuel hoses were like potato chips, dry and crumbling, but the gas tank was clean and shiny, and the spare tire had never been out of its carrier.” With careful pre-lubrication and some new lengths of fuel hose, the 427 actually fired up for Crosby. The water pump and mufflers had at some point been replaced, but for an experienced Corvette restorer like Crosby, finding date-coded replacements took little effort. Finding four NOS fenders, however, proved a challenge. “I took a six-week safari around the country to find four GM fenders,” he said. “I paid a fortune for them all, but I could not bring myself to get reproduction fenders if the real ones were still out there.”

As for authenticating the Corvette as Armstrong’s, Rathmann did keep files on all of his astronaut cars, but subsequent owners of the dealership destroyed those records. Still, Armstrong’s name appears on the Protect-O-Plate, and Crosby convinced Jack Legere, a friend of his who works at NASA, to show Armstrong Crosby’s photos of the Corvette during one of Armstrong’s periodic visits to Florida. “He immediately recalled it and grinned ear to ear,” Crosby said. “He didn’t have time then to check it out in person, and we all know what happened next.” Armstrong died in late August at the age of 82.

Up until this summer, Crosby intended to subject the Corvette to a full restoration, as he had with all of his other Corvettes, but then mid-year expert David Burroughs, a champion of original and preserved cars, convinced him to call preservationist Eric Gill of nearby Port Orange, Florida. Like Burroughs, Gill prefers preservation over restoration, particularly when it comes to cars with provenance, such as the Neil Armstrong Corvette. “Preservation is the cutting edge in the hobby right now,” Gill said. “The term is deceptive because some people think it just means sitting on the car, but we’re actually developing protocols for retaining the history of a car, as opposed to wiping away all that history in a restoration. A historically significant car is only as interesting as the people who gave it that history.”

After several conversations between Crosby and Gill, the two put together a team – including restorer/preservationist Allan Scheffling, videographer Chris Hoch, photographer Roger Kallins, and Legere – that will carefully document the Corvette as it sits now and identify steps to take in the coupe’s preservation. “I’m calling this a reactive preservation, which means that we have to react to a situation that exists that is inappropriate to the historical integrity of the car, in this case the fender flares,” Gill said. “We want to take it back to the condition it was in when Neil Armstrong traded it in.”

The hardest part of the preservation, Gill said, will be replacing the flares with sections of unflared fenders and then distressing the new paint over the replaced sections to harmonize with the existing paint. “We won’t be replacing the full fenders, which will inflate the number of hours we’ll have in the car, but will also give us the opportunity to disturb as little of the original paint as possible. We hope to do it in such a way that you can’t tell even though you know it’s been replaced.”

Crosby has since come around to Gill’s line of thinking, at least for this car. “Once you restore a car, you can’t ever go back to the way it was,” Crosby said. “Some people might see it as a beat-up old car, but people like us see that if you undo all that, it’s no longer Neil Armstrong’s car. This isn’t a car, it’s a piece of history, and the chance of having just one car like this is just astronomical.”

Due to the detailed nature of the process that Gill and his team have outlined, they have no set timeline, but they plan to post more information to their website, RecaptureThePast.com, and provide Hemmings Daily with updates to the preservation as it proceeds.

Dom Romney

 

 

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Vintage Volkswagens & Photography
September 28, 2012

Dom Romney


Dom Romney is an internationally award winning automotive and motor sport photographer working out of London, England. At only seventeen Dom started as work as a press photographer before decided to set up his own business – Dom Romney Photography was born in the spring of 2010, and has grown quickly in to a brand with clients across the globe.

Working solely with editorial and commercial clients, Dom’s high contrast vibrant work has already won him numerous awards and recognition from his peers. Along with his success as a photographer, Dom also provides lectures at the world renowned Citylit centre in london, teaching on a mix of techniques and technologies.

Dom writes “I got the call from Fast Car magazine to shoot this awesome aircooled for their wild card section, however to do justice to its American barn-find heritage, it needed to be shot in barn! Typical English barns are normally of concrete and corrugated steel construction, a far cry from the traditional timber barns you get in the States and hardly a nice photographic backdrop. After locating a plausible wooden barn in middle england (a task that was harder than you’d expect) we set about shooting it. To add to the vintage, weathered feel and to give the image the same feel as that satin, suede patina, we processed the images with some warm muted textures which I think really make the feature. Here is a small selection of my favourite images from the shoot.”

You can view more of Dom’s photography at domromney.com

 

Murdered-Out Twin-Engined Death Rod Is Insanely Beautiful

What a piece of work.  Enjoy this from Rod Authority.

By Salvatore Alaimo, posted on Feb 14, 2012 in News
 http://www.rodauthority.com/news/video-murdered-out-twin-engined-death-rod-is-insanely-beautiful/

In some cases, a slew of random images just don’t do a build any justice. Case in point, this well-done footage of Yannick Sire’s dual-engined, open-wheeled speed machine. As a gearhead, you’re probably well aware that the birth of hot rodding was nurtured from the sunny west coast of Southern California. It’s there you’ll find custom rod builders like George Barris and the infamous S0-Cal Speed Shop.

Following along in their footsteps, Yannick Sire is not only taking inspiration from those before him but indeed, pushing it beyond most peoples comfort levels. We couldn’t help but post such an amazing build. Although this might not run bottom 11s at the track or clip an amazing lap time during an autocross course, its pretty awesome.

If this doesn’t inspire you, we aren’t quite sure what will. For the most part, we’ll let the video do most of the talking on this one. West Los Angeles rod builder, Yannick Sire has reinvigorated the West Coast’s tradition of radical street rodding with his full-custom hot rod, a hybrid creation of many different parts from different cars.

Sire, is truly an inspirational genius. Sire even hand-crafted each of the 16 individual header tubes himself.

The real trademark, however, of Sire’s custom rod are the two, 450-horse Chevy small-blocks, both outfitted with a heavy-breathing set of Air Flow Research (AFR) cylinder heads. Not only does this combination sound amazing, its equaling out to fire-breathing 16 cylinders.

Sire’s wheel choice consists of a 20 x 9.5-/20 x 10.5-inch front/rear combination from an ’02-’03, BMW X5. The Continental tires are P275/35R20 and P315/35R20, respectively. The front suspension uses custom, unequal length A-arms with second-gen Camaro, two-inch drop spindles.

Since slowing down is just as, if not more important, Sire upgraded the braking system to 14-inch Corvette Z06 on all four corners. Stering is handled by a Subaru STI rack-and-pinion. At the front of Sire’s V16 rod are a set of QA1 coilovers with a rate of 650 lb/in, and the completed vehicle weighs in at an estimated 2500 pounds.

For the last several years in the performance craft, we’ve had made the general statement that there are two ways to make any car or truck go fast: make it lighter or else more powerful. In the case of Yannick Sire and his 16-cylinder hot rod, both principles have been exercised to the absolute extreme!

Image credit: GTSpirit.com